Note: The chart above goes back only to 2019, as that is when the City began providing consistent and comparable data on all shelter systems.
The chart below, however, shows the longer historical trend in the DHS and HPD shelter census from January 1983 through June 2023. Since the City did not begin providing disaggregated data on the number of New Arrivals in each shelter system until July 2023, the DHS shelter census from April 2022 (when the increase in New Arrivals began) through June 2023 reflects aggregated data on both New Arrivals and homeless longer-term New Yorkers in DHS shelters.
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For an explanation of how mayoral polices impacted the number of people in shelters, click here.
